| Hercules' Rattle | |
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Origin |
Hercules |
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Type |
Ancient Rattle |
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Effects |
Creates a electromagnetic pulse when clasped together. The stronger the person the stronger the effect. |
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Downsides |
Electromagnetic disturbances. |
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Activation |
Clasping together |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 3 |
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Section |
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Aisle |
398889039-938920093 |
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Shelf |
5544440-338839-3982823 |
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Date of Collection |
Era of Warehouse 3 |
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Origin[]
Heracles (/ˈhɛrəkliːz/ HERR-ə-kleez; Greek: Ἡρακλῆς, lit. "glory/fame of Hera"), born Alcaeus (Ἀλκαῖος, Alkaios) or Alcides (Ἀλκείδης, Alkeidēs), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, and the foster son of Amphitryon. He was a great-grandson and half-brother (as they are both sired by the god Zeus) of Perseus, and similarly a half-brother of Dionysus. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae (Ἡρακλεῖδαι), and a champion of the Olympian order against chthonic monsters. In Rome and the modern West, he is known as Hercules, with whom the later Roman emperors, in particular Commodus and Maximian, often identified themselves. The Romans adopted the Greek version of his life and works essentially unchanged, but added anecdotal detail of their own, some of it linking the hero with the geography of the Central Mediterranean. Details of his cult were adapted to Rome as well.
The Stymphalian birds were defeated by Heracles (Hercules) in his sixth labour for Eurystheus. Heracles could not go into the marsh to reach the nests of the birds, as the ground would not support his weight. Athena, noticing the hero's plight, gave Heracles a rattle called krotala, which Hephaestus had made especially for the occasion. Heracles shook the krotala (similar to castanets) on a certain mountain that overhung the lake and thus frightening the birds into the air. Heracles then shot many of them with feathered arrows tipped with poisonous blood from the slain Hydra. In some versions of this story this labour was discounted because of the help of Athena. The rest flew far away, never to plague Arcadia again. Heracles brought some of the slain birds to Eurystheus as proof of his success.
According to Warehouse 3 files, the rattle was used to deactivate the birds and then taken to be stored in a mechanical pithos, designed to be un-breakable, with a locking mechanism designed by a ancient Assyrian locksmith. It is said to have been buried somewhere in Arcadia, Greece, where it was ultimately dug up in 1933.
Effects[]
Creates a electromagnetic pulse when clasped together. The stronger the person the stronger the effect.
Collection[]
Collected during the Era of Warehouse 3. Was instrumental in collecting the Original Stymphalian Birds.
On May 20th, 1933 workers in Arcadia, Greece accidentally uncover a mechanical pithos with Greek inscriptions, which before Warehouse agents could get there, the locals activated the unlocking mechanism to the pithos and released The Original Stymphalian Birds.